Camille Flammarion Quote

Thus perpetual motion bears the world along! The sun moves through space; the earth moves round him, letting herself be carried along in his flight; the moon moves, circulating round us, while we gravitate round the radiant hearth which precipitates itself into the eternal void.


Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens, Book II, Chapter III (p. 109), Chatto & Windus. 1894


Thus perpetual motion bears the world along! The sun moves through space; the earth moves round him, letting herself be carried along in his flight;...

Thus perpetual motion bears the world along! The sun moves through space; the earth moves round him, letting herself be carried along in his flight;...

Thus perpetual motion bears the world along! The sun moves through space; the earth moves round him, letting herself be carried along in his flight;...

Thus perpetual motion bears the world along! The sun moves through space; the earth moves round him, letting herself be carried along in his flight;...